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Biography
Alice Jolly (born 1966) is an English novelist, playwright and memoirist, who has won both the Royal Society of Literature’s V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize for short stories (2014) and the PEN/Ackerley Prize for autobiography (2016)
Education and career
Jolly graduated from Worcester College, Oxford with a degree in Modern History in 1989.
She teaches on the Creative Writing MA course at Oxford University.
Published works
- What the Eye Doesn’t See (Simon & Schuster, 2003)
- If Only You Knew (Simon & Schuster, 2006)
- Dead Babies and Seaside Towns (Unbound, 2015)
Jolly has also written a number of plays for the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham and the Cheltenham Literature Festival.
Awards
In 2014 Jolly was awarded the Royal Society of Literature’s V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize for her short story, Ray the Rottweiler
In 2016 she was awarded the PEN/Ackerley Prize for her memoir, Dead Babies and Seaside Towns, the publication of which was crowdfunded.
Personal life
Jolly is married to a lawyer, Stephen Kinsella. They have two children, Thomas and Hope, and live in Gloucestershire.